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5 Tips to Keep Your Healthy Living New Year’s Resolution

January 20, 2012
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It’s the middle of January and how many of you are ready to give up on your new year’s resolution of living a healthier lifestyle? Stats show that over 70% drop their resolutions by the 31st. The key to a healthier lifestyle transformation is to integrate small changes, which will make you feel better overall and will lead to more healthy habits. Many try to take on an entire lifestyle overhaul rather than integrating smaller and more attainable goals that will take them throughout the entire year. </p>
<p>These five tips illustrate ways to help you stay on track to achieving your healthy resolution well into 2012.---Suncear Scretchen
1)  Specify</p>
<p>Being more specific about what you are trying to achieve rather than making vague statements will bring some clarity to your goals.   Language is a vehicle to creating what you want.  “I’m going to lose 20 pounds” or “I want to fit into my favorite outfit” is  more declarative and places the goal within reach more so than “I want to lose weight.”</p>
<p>Having an action plan behind your statements is also important in staying on the path. You may want to eat healthier but does that mean integrating more vegetables? Consuming less sugar and more whole grains? Wanting to eat more consciously is laudable but if you take on too much at once, you could be setting your self up to fail.  How about making a goal of eating more whole grains by bringing a sandwich to work made from 7 grain bread or asking for brown rice instead of white at your favorite Asian restaurant?
2)  Get a Buddy System</p>
<p>It is so important to have someone on your team to achieving a healthier lifestyle.  Many of us have families, co-workers and friends that aren’t monitoring their caloric intake or fat consumption.  Therefore, a new lifestyle can be very isolating.  That is why having a buddy or network is very important in staying on track.  Not only do they provide a supportive environment but they also hold you accountable when you fall off the wagon. When you are in a pact to make changes, you are also affecting others and that could have a negative impact on their goals as well as yours.</p>
<p>You may also need to re-evaluate friendships that are not sensitive or supportive of your resolution. It’s tough enough to pass on the pal’s birthday cake but if someone is constantly trying to cajole you into eating more so that they don’t feel so bad about eating it, you may need to spend less time with that person.  Find a community or person that share your healthy aspirations or if you can, find a coach/counselor whose job it is to help you meet your goals.
3)  Manage Stress</p>
<p>A healthy lifestyle is not just about nutrition and exercise.  What goes on in your personal life affects your eating (that’s why it’s called comfort food) and your motivation.  Stress is unhealthy and managing it is a major component of living healthily and will positively or negatively effect your resolution outcome.</p>
<p>If you have a stressful job or are in the midst of an un-happy relationship, find ways to cope with these nuisances or move away from them altogether.  Finding “me time” such as meditation, starting a blog, volunteering, creating an art project or riding a motorcycle.  If it makes you feel good about yourself and takes you away from the day to day difficulties, do it.  If you are stressed you are more prone to fall back into bad habits.
4) Change your mindset.</p><div class=

This may sound hokey but positive thinking makes all the difference in the world to whether or not you are a part of that 30% that sticks to their resolution. How events occur for you is a reflection of what you think and believe. If you think exercising is too hard or boring and drinking a lot water is like taking medicine then most likely you will give up before the 31st.

Keeping in mind the benefits of why you are making these changes will be helpful in keeping them going. Instead of dreading the water, know that you are helping flush out toxins and bringing more clarity throughout the day. Or focus on that feeling of accomplishment, renewed energy and natural high you get when you are done with your workout.

When you are in that positive state of mind you are also more apt to find solutions to things you may find cumbersome. Put some lemon, lime or grapefruit juice in that water to combat the “medicine” reaction. Find a class that you enjoy like Zumba, pole dancing, wrestling or squash so that you look forward to attending and doesn’t feel like working out." title="basketball-620x480.jpg" />
5) Ease up</p>
<p>Simple put - if you fall off the healthy wagon, get back on. Remember that it’s a new year’s resolution not a new month’s resolution, so don’t give up after a few weeks of trying. Creating new habits and making unfamiliar changes is not easy for anyone so don’t think you are alone.  The key is accepting your humanness and knowing that you are going to make some mistakes along the way.</p>
<p>Giving in to that popcorn smell at the movies can happen to the most health-conscious of us. It’s okay to indulge every so often because if you don’t, anger and frustration will seep in because you are depriving your self of things you love. It can be helpful to try some substitutes such as a chocolate protein smoothie instead of the chocolate shake, dates instead of the candy, fruit juice instead of soda.  You won’t even miss the more unhealthy options and your cravings for them will eventually subside.
Some of these tips are easier than other to implement but keep in mind that your resolution of living a healthier lifestyle will make you feel and look better and you will be ready to take on a different goal in 2013.</p>
<p>Suncear Scretchen is a Certified Holistic Health Counselor and feels that it is her purpose in life to help other lead healthier lifestyles. She chronicles her healthy living lifestyle in her blog The Conscious Chick.




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